43.GoldenEye 007

56%

This ’97 N64 shooter boasts at least two utterly unique qualities. It’s the only game, ever, to feature the crude likeness of both Pierce Brosnan and Famke Janssen, and it’s the only licensed game, ever, to totally outshine the movie it was based on (we’re pretty sure). GoldenEye wasn’t a bad Bond film, but it certainly can’t claim the afterschool-schedule-dominating appeal of its pixelated counterpart. Due credit to the solo-player story, but — considering all the stealth and marksmanship we mustered to shoot our friends until blood flooded their corner of the screen — the multi-player death match triumphed as the main attraction. _Barry Thompson